Closing device for bottles.



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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed October 6, 1902. Serial No. 126,076.

To a, whom, it mmty concern:

Be it known that I, CAROLINE CARR, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at No. 18 Murton street, Sunderland, in the county of Durham, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Closing Devices for Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to further improvements in the closing devices for bottles and the like on which I have already obtained Letters Patent in the United States No. 671,011. dated April 2, 1901, and No. 688,296, dated December 3, 1901.

Practical experience has demonstrated that some of the forms set forth in my previous patents are less applicable in practice chiefly on account of difficulty of manufacture. I have therefore invented a simplified construction of closing device adapted to cooperate with a specially-formed neck and mouth of the bottle and so arranged that by an extremely simple device the cork or the like is absolutely inclosed and cannot be displaced or tampered with without breaking the neck or cover.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which I have illustrated my improvement, Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of the construction. Fig. 2 represents a plan view of the bottle-neck extension and of the cover of same. Fig. 3 represents a section of the glass lid.

The bottle-neck A is expanded to form the rectangular extension C. The cork or stopper D is inserted when the bottle is filled in the usual manner and presents no difliculty of manipulation. When the cork is securely fixed, the covering-lid E is applied. This lid resembles the lid already set forth in my prior patents and consists of a sheet of glass or metal folded on itself, as shown, and slotted to hold the. spring F; but in its present arrangement' it is applied to a much-simplified holder devised to hold it securely in place either with or without the aid of the springcatch F or other equivalent device.

The spring-catch shown in the drawings consists of a flat spiral wire spring having a metal bolt at each end adapted to engage in recesses Bin opposite sides of the extension C, as shown v in Fig. 2. I do not, however, limit myself to the precise construction of spring-catch shown, as the same may be made in various forms to fulfil the object of locking the lid E in place.

That I claim is- 1. In combination with a bottle, a rectangular outwardly-sloping top (I provided with recesses B at opposite sides of said top, a double cover adapted to infold one edge of said top, and a spring-bolt adapted to engage in the recesses B and secure the cover upon the bottle-top.

2. In combination with a bottle, a rectangular outwardly-sloping bottle-top, a recurved rim along one edge of said bottle-top, a nearly vertical rim provided with a recess H and opposite to said recurved rinnand a doubled cover adapted to infold the said recurved rim, and to engage with its closed side in the recess in the nearly vertical rim on the opposite side, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CAROLINE CARR.

Witnesses:

THOMAS IrIUMeLn, F. BrLLiNesnnY. 

